Here is the multi award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. This is a full-cast, unabridged performance, with comprehensive commentary and analysis, enabling students to fully understand and appreciate the play. Judge for yourself whether Lear is "a man more sinned against than sinning" in this moral tale that pits wisdom and age against ambition and youth. Experience and examine the power of Shakespeare's most cruel and violent tragedy.

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play.

"And nothing is, but what is not." Macbeth may be mystified by the Weird Sisters' words but this intense performance with incisive commentary cuts to the heart of Shakespeare's complex psychological tragedy.

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. The poetry of Shakespeare's star crossed lovers is poignantly performed and expertly explained in this unique production: "Passion lends them power."

The multi award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. This is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Universally accepted as Shakespeare's finest play, we peel back the layers of Hamlet to discover how and why it deserves such a place of honour in world literature.

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Hear "A little touch of Harry" whenever you want to! Examine and appreciate the powerful language of leadership in this guided history play, considered to be Shakespeare's greatest creative statement about war.

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. When characters have to ask "Are all the people mad?" you need a guide! Explore this topsy-turvy world to understand, enjoy, and analyse the language, imagery, and themes of Shakespeare's dark comedy.

Here is the multi award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. This is a full-cast, unabridged performance, with comprehensive commentary and analysis, enabling students to fully understand and appreciate the play. Judge for yourself whether Lear is "a man more sinned against than sinning" in this moral tale that pits wisdom and age against ambition and youth. Experience and examine the power of Shakespeare's most cruel and violent tragedy.

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play.

"And nothing is, but what is not." Macbeth may be mystified by the Weird Sisters' words but this intense performance with incisive commentary cuts to the heart of Shakespeare's complex psychological tragedy.

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. The poetry of Shakespeare's star crossed lovers is poignantly performed and expertly explained in this unique production: "Passion lends them power."

The multi award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. This is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Universally accepted as Shakespeare's finest play, we peel back the layers of Hamlet to discover how and why it deserves such a place of honour in world literature.

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Hear "A little touch of Harry" whenever you want to! Examine and appreciate the powerful language of leadership in this guided history play, considered to be Shakespeare's greatest creative statement about war.

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. When characters have to ask "Are all the people mad?" you need a guide! Explore this topsy-turvy world to understand, enjoy, and analyse the language, imagery, and themes of Shakespeare's dark comedy.

Here is the multi award-winning SmartPass study guide, with and without commentary options. This is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis to allow any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Meet literature's greatest villain in this tragedy, fuelled by jealous rage. Journey into the twisted mind of Iago, who freely admits, "I am not what I am", and truly get under the skin of this wondrous play.

Passion Gone Awry

By
Andre
on
07-16-16

Julius Caesar

Shakespeare Appreciated (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)

By:
William Shakespeare,
Simon Potter,
David Cottis,
and others

Narrated by:
Joan Walker,
Gregory Cox,
Colin Campbell

Length: 7 hrs

Unabridged

Overall

88

Performance

64

Story

65

Experience Julius Caesar as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you get the most out of Shakespeare, the narrator offers historical insights and background information, so you can enjoy the jokes, appreciate the references, and get a real sense of Shakespeare's world.

Excellent young scholar's intro to Shakespeare

By
Laura Quave
on
10-28-10

Julius Caesar

A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre

By:
William Shakespeare

Narrated by:
full cast

Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins

Original Recording

Overall

119

Performance

100

Story

100

The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings
Julius Caesar to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition.

Reliving the past

By
Anil Peter
on
08-20-16

The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis

By:
The Great Courses

Narrated by:
Professor Louis Markos

Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins

Original Recording

Overall

195

Performance

180

Story

179

What can we still learn from C.S. Lewis? Find out in these 12 insightful lectures that cover the author's spiritual autobiography, novels, and his scholarly writings that reflect on pain and grief, love and friendship, prophecy and miracles, and education and mythology.

Basically a collection of sermons

By
Richard
on
11-20-13

A Farewell to Arms

By:
Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by:
John Slattery

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Unabridged

Overall

2,657

Performance

2,147

Story

2,137

The best American novel to emerge from World War I,
A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.

This is not unabridged

By
Valerian
on
06-17-11

Writing Creative Nonfiction

By:
The Great Courses,
Tilar J J. Mazzeo

Narrated by:
Professor Tilar J J. Mazzeo

Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins

Original Recording

Overall

376

Performance

332

Story

329

Bringing together the imaginative strategies of fiction storytelling and new ways of narrating true, real-life events, creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing part of the creative writing world. It's a cutting-edge genre that's reshaping how we write (and read) everything from biographies and memoirs to blogs and public speaking scripts to personal essays and magazine articles.

Fiction! Nonfiction! You Name It!

By
Gillian
on
05-05-15

Tales from Shakespeare

By:
Charles Lamb,
Mary Lamb

Narrated by:
Nadia May

Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Unabridged

Overall

35

Performance

14

Story

13

A fabulous way to experience twenty of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays, this retelling of the stories in prose was originally published just for children. Keeping Shakespeare's own words whenever possible, but making the plots and language easily understandable, this very readable collection has entertained and informed generations of adults as well. It is the ideal primer for anyone interested in becoming familiar with the works of the great bard.

Great

By
Erica
on
01-07-08

Othello

Shakespeare Appreciated: (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)

By:
William Shakespeare,
Jonathan Lomas,
Phil Viner

Narrated by:
Joan Walker,
Jude Akuwudike,
Nick Murchie

Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins

Unabridged

Overall

124

Performance

87

Story

87

Experience Othello as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you get the most out of Shakespeare, the narrator offers historical insights and background information, so you can enjoy the jokes, appreciate the references, and get a real sense of Shakespeare's world.

Excellent Listen

By
Cody
on
08-27-09

King Lear

Shakespeare Appreciated: (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)

By:
William Shakespeare,
Mike Reeves,
Phil Viner

Narrated by:
Joan Walker,
Terrence Hardiman,
Lucy Robinson

Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged

Overall

125

Performance

85

Story

82

Experience King Lear as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you get the most out of Shakespeare, the narrator offers historical insights and background information, so you can enjoy the jokes, appreciate the references, and get a real sense of Shakespeare's world.

Love the format, like the piece

By
fred
on
06-01-09

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare Appreciated: (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)

By:
William Shakespeare,
Simon Potter,
Phil Viner

Narrated by:
Joan Walker,
David Thorpe,
Lucy Robinson

Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins

Unabridged

Overall

62

Performance

49

Story

47

Experience Twelfth Night as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you get the most out of Shakespeare, the narrator offers historical insights and background information, so you can enjoy the jokes, appreciate the references, and get a real sense of Shakespeare's world.

Maxi-Shakespeare

By
C. Telfair
on
06-23-12

The History of English Poetry

By:
Peter Whitfield

Narrated by:
Derek Jacobi

Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins

Unabridged

Overall

51

Performance

40

Story

40

English literature is a treasure trove of wonderful poetry. From Shakespeare to Milton, Keats to Shelley and Tennyson to Yeats, this accessible history (especially written for Naxos Audiobooks) introduces the listener to countless small masterpieces, including all the old favorites and some lesser-known gems. Whitfield explores this most expressive of art forms and traces the historical development of a rich and diverse canon of poetical works.

Enjoyable and enlightening

By
Roger
on
10-27-09

The Odyssey

The Fitzgerald Translation

By:
Homer,
Robert Fitzgerald - translator

Narrated by:
Dan Stevens

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Unabridged

Overall

367

Performance

340

Story

340

Robert Fitzgerald's translation of
The Odyssey has been the standard translation for more than three generations of students and poets. Macmillan Audio is delighted to publish the first ever audio edition of this classic work, the greatest of all epic poems. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited for audio, recounting the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language listener in all its glory.

Amazing for classes!

By
Cindy
on
11-04-15

Publisher's Summary

The multi award-winning SmartPass study guide, with and without commentary options. This is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Soak up the atmosphere of ancient Rome. Decide for yourself whether Caesar's power and ambition was a threat to the Republic, and whether assassination can ever be justified.

Performance

Story

Three Cheers for Julius Caesar and SmartPass

I wish this had been around when I was in college. It is absolutely riveting. If you liked Shakespeare before you will appreciate it even more. If you were intimidated by Shakespeare you will find a new friend. There is a natural ebb and flow from the recited lines of the play by the twenty plus actors (yes I counted them) back to the guide who walks you through by gently pointing out the meaning of obscure words or phrases and by providing the historical backdrop that is sorely needed to appreciate the play. You get into the characters' mindset and actually feel an emotional bonding with them whether love or hate. For the grand finale you get a summary of the plot and some review questions for a potential exam. This recording will be enjoyed by college students and the general public. You won't be disappointed!

Shakespeare's First Great Play

If you could sum up SmartPass Plus Audio Education Study Guide to Julius Caesar (Dramatised, Commentary Options) in three words, what would they be?

Great, bloody, dramatic.

What did you like best about this story?

What I liked best about this story was Shakespeare's craftsmanship as a storyteller and a dramatist. He was far ahead of his time. His plays are unsurpassed for their beauty, language, and tragedy. If a production of "Julius Caesar" comes to town, I can see it with confidence after having listened to SmartPass' dramatization and commentary.

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

I love the use of multiple actors to bring the story to life. An added treat are the women actors given that in Shakespeare's era women actors were banned from the stage and men played all of the women roles. It was great listening to real women and how Shakespeare accomplished writing in depth and complicated female characters even though he never saw a woman perform them.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The moment in the book that particularly moved me was the Roman Senate's assassination of Julius Caesar. I felt every knife blow and wanted to say "Et tu, Brute?" The assassination was vivid and violent. It stays with me.The perpetrators are right--people will reenact the assassination on stage for centuries.